Whats your favorite steampunk novel?

I was very much attracted by K. W Jeter's steampunk novel Morlock Night. Morlock Night revolves around an attempt by the wizard Merlin to raise King Arthur to save the Britain of 1892 from an invasion of Morlocks from the future.

It's a sort of light steampunk, but I really really (almost to my suprise) enjoyed Gail Carriger's Soulless (the first book in the parasol protectorate series productsearch.barnesandnoble.com/search/... ). It was a lot of fun with subtle details and textures of steampunk. The sequel, Changeless, was also fun and included both more steampunk (some costuming details!) and a brief look at an alternate Egyptian history.

I really liked that bit, since I've always kind of wondered how steampunk stories would handle archaeology.

William Gibson's "the Difference Engine" is widely viewed as one of the founding blocks of that genre. I strongly recommend it.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.